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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Force generation of IGNOREFIELDS YES

Need the ability to be able to generate IGNOREFIELDS YES. In some cases we load into UAT environments where the new column is not there yet
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow dimension attribute to appear as a hover-over message or popup text for an element

Allow selecting dimension's (especially measure dimension) text attribute or an alias to appear as a hover-over message or a pop-up text if populated. The element which has a popup text can have a bulb-like icon next to it, to indicate that elemen...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Stop agent from continuously checking once condition is met in Event Studio.

Customer would like agent to stop running once condition has been met for that day.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add synopsis tables and Columnar Page Map usage to BLU explain plans.

Add synopsis tables and Columnar Page Map usage to BLU explain plans.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Life Cycle Manager

In life cycle manager the product does not support comparing Excel reports in Cognos. It only supports comparing in HTML and PDF. Could comparing excel be added to the product.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAWs "Applications and Plans" if selected "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button will benefit of been able to be connected to a process

using PAWs "Applications and Plans" if I select "Requires submission upon completion of this step" the submit button only allows to mark that the submission has been done. The question is, is it possible to combine this "submit" button with a TI P...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Build Discovery support for automatic correction of mis-spellings instead of requiring Query expansion to explicitely train Discovery

We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot offering with Watson Discovery search integration. Feedback from one of our Customer's indicates that they are looking for built-in Watson Discovery support for correcting mis-spellings / offer...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Object Manager - Workflow Migration automation

Needing to update the XML files directly for environment values and variables when migrating from one environment to another can result in errors. Either due to missed updates, mistyping of values, or invalid changes being made and missed.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mask URL field

At the moment, Rich Text Fields does not support embedding URL linking, so the only way to link to an external site is via the URL field. When this field is used, the full URL is exposed as a link to the front end user. Customer wishes to be able ...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Not under consideration